Introduction and semester projects

Introductions

Share with your colleagues:

• Why are you interested in GIS?
  
• What do you hope to accomplish in this course?

Course goals

Syllabus

Semester projects

Semester projects

• This semester, you’ll be working with one of five different Fort Worth-area organizations to assist them with GIS tasks
• You’ll be assigned one of these groups by next week and will complete a semester-long individual project for your client

Fort Worth Bike Sharing

Fort Worth Solid Waste

Tarrant County Homeless Coalition

Tarrant Area Food Bank

Tarrant Transit Alliance

Semester project timeline

• This week: submit to me your group choices in ranked order
• Weeks 2-3: project “wishlist” delivered to you
• February 25: project “pitch” due to me and your clients
• Weeks 13-14: open project work
• May 7: final report due
• May 8: poster presentation session

ArcGIS Pro

• This semester, we will be using ArcGIS Pro to complete our desktop GIS labs
• Review and catch-up